Professional Documents
Culture Documents
III-Filipino 05/03/17
Grading requires Thoughtful and Informed Professional Judgment!” “Do Not Use
Grades as Weapon!” “Grading is NOT Essential to the Instructional Process.
2. Pass-fail
o Popular in some elementary schools
o Used to allow exploration in high school/college
o Should be kept to the minimum, because:
a. do not provide much information
b. students work to the minimum
o In mastery learning courses, can leave blank till “mastery” threshold
reached
3. Checklists of objectives
o Most common in elementary school
o Can either replace or supplement letter grades
o Each item in the checklist can be rated: Outstanding, Satisfactory,
Unsatisfactory; A, B, C, etc.
o Problem is to keep the list manageable and understandable
4. Letters to parents/guardians
o Useful supplement to grades
o Limited value as sole report, because:
a. very time consuming
b. accounts of weaknesses often misinterpreted
c. not systematic or cumulative
o Great tact needed in presenting problems (lying, etc.)
5. Portfolios
o Set of purposefully selected work, with commentary by student and
teacher
o Useful for:
a. showing student’s strengths and weaknesses
b. illustrating range of student work
c. showing progress over time or stages of a project
d. teaching students about objectives/standards they are to meet
6. Parent-teacher conferences
o Used mostly in elementary school
o Portfolios (when used) are useful basis for discussion
o Useful for:
a. two-way flow of information
b. getting more information and cooperation from parents
o Limited in value as the major report, because
a. time consuming
b. provides no systematic record of progress
c. some parents won’t come